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Grev,<br>
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Why am I not surprised that you would come through with the perfect
response. (And I'm gratified to see that this is actually a new and
ongoing project, and not something old hat that I should have known
about already!)<br>
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The project description lists two syntactic properties providing
evidence for prominent possessors, verbal agreement and
switch-reference marking. In the case that I am working on, in
Papuan Malay, there are (at least) two other such properties:
availability for promotion to subject in a periphrastic passive
construction, and the actual marking of the NP itself as animate or
inanimate. <br>
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Best,<br>
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David<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/02/2017 20:42,
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<div class="">Instances where the possessor “takes over" and
determines the properties of the whole NP have been termed
“prominent possessors”. See this site for a project on the
subject, led by Irina Nikolaeva (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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Is anybody familiar with languages in which:<br class="">
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(1) NPs exhibit different properties (coding, syntactic
behaviour, or whatever) depending on whether they're
animate or inanimate; and<br class="">
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(2) If an NPs consists of possessor and possessed nouns,
where the possessor is animate and the possessed is
inanimate, such NPs are treated as animate, even though
the inanimate possessed noun is otherwise the head of
the NP. (For example, in such a language, "John's book"
would be considered animate.)<br class="">
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I am currently working on such a case, and am wondering
how commonplace this is, and whether analyses have
already been proposed for similar patterns in other
languages. (I have a vague recollection of having
encountered something similar in the past, but can't
quite place it.) In principle one could imagine
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David<br class="">
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David Gil
Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
Kahlaische Strasse 10, 07745 Jena, Germany
Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:gil@shh.mpg.de">gil@shh.mpg.de</a>
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